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We have heard God's good news, just like God's people in the wilderness heard his message. But that message did not help them, because they did not believe it. They did not trust God, like those who obeyed him. But those of us who trust God do enjoy his special place of rest. This is what God said:

‘Because I was very angry with them, I promised this:
“They will never arrive in my special place of rest.” ’[a]

God said that, even though he had finished his work when he made the world. In the Bible God has spoken about the seventh day like this:

‘God rested from all his work on the seventh day.’[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:3 See Psalms 95:11.
  2. 4:4 See Genesis 2:2.